Meat, it’s what’s for breakfast
Joanie’s Cafe on Palo Alto’s California Avenue is my go-to breakfast joint. At most restaurants I prefer to sit at the counter for the best service. At Joanie’s you’ll always have a full cup of coffee no matter where you sit.
The 2-egg breakfast specials include the following choices:
- Egg Style
- Fruit, Hash Browns, or Home Fries
- Bread Type
- No Meat or Meat Style
The meat option is the only one that costs more, so when my husband orders the two egg, scrambled, fruit, sausage and muffin and I order the two egg, scrambled, wheat toast, the server turns to me and, raises his eyebrows and asks “No meat?” and I respond “No meat,” delighting in his verbal economy.
When I eat at new restaurants (and by new I mean recently opened) I almost never see or hear the sorts of systems that make Joanie’s so well run. I’d love to spend a year immersing myself in a variety of restaurants, seeing how they work, learning their systems, and then become a new sort of usability expert, one that can make restaurants’ websites and systems better.
